Step 1: Assemble Your Pieces

Once you’ve acquired all your hardware, it’s time to assemble your chess pieces. Use our setup as a guideline, but feel free to use your imagination when picking out nuts and bolts! There’s no limit to the different configurations you can make.

Step 2: Spray Paint!

Spray paint half your pieces. We used Krylon ColorMaster Metallic Gold, since it complimented the natural chrome of the hardware.

Step 3: Make Your Board

This step is by far the most monotonous, but it’s actually pretty simple and cheap. We sell single squares of linoleum flooring for <$1 each. They even come with a checkerboard design! Unfortunately, the design was way too big. Since I didn’t want a 4-foot wide chess board (as fun as that sounds), I ended up cutting one large square into 64 small, 1.25″ squares. They’re already adhesive, so then I just peeled them off and stuck them to the backside of my other full square of linoleum to create a fully functional chess board for under $2! The only downside to using this method is that it’s pretty difficult to get all 64 squares to line up perfectly when you cut them by hand. If I were to do this project again, I would be a lot more careful with the measuring and cutting to make the squares more uniform.

Need a little help?

Not to worry! Visit your local Valu and speak to one of our Associates. They’ve got the knowledge and the products for your unique project.